A Reading List on Aileen Wuornos

On Aileen Wuornos

Books

• Dear Dawn; Aileen Wuornos In Her Own Words

• The Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos

• Lethal Intent

• Monster; Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

• Dead Ends; The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos

• Fatal Women; Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression

• Selfish Women

Academic Papers

• Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos; Attachment Theory, Psychopathy, and Predatory Aggression

• The Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism's “First Serial Killer”

• Autobiographical documentary - the ‘seer and the seen’

• Monster-Making; Narrative/Metanarrative in the Representation of Aileen Wuornos

• Control

• An inmate’s right to die

Essays

• Surpassing the word

• The Deferential Wife Revisited

• Aileen Wuornos was no monster

• CCR: Lawyer did a bad job in serial killer case

• Corporal Evidence

• From documentary to drama

• Aileen Wuornos Superstar

• Making a Killing (Preview)

• Women and Violence — Gender Myths

• OUI DISH 4 U

• Does the Unabomber have any relevance to anarchism?

Conversations

• Interview: Phyllis Chesler on Aileen Wuornos and Valerie Solanas, icons of female violence against men

• A Collaboratively Edited Discussion on Anti-Tech Politics

• A Conversation with John Zerzan on Direct Action, School Shootings, Authenticity, Veganism & More

Films

• Nick Broomfield's Two Documentaries on Aileen Wuornos

• Monster Film Script

• Monster Film Transcript (2003)

Film Reviews

• A Review of Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

• Hypocrisy Imbues Tale of 'Aileen Wuornos'

• Monster: The Retelling of the Aileen Wuornos Story

Related Reading

Opportunist killers abused as children

• In Cold Blood

Battered women who killed their abusers

• The Map of My Life

• Sara Thornton; The Story of a Woman Who Killed

Sex critical feminism

• Sex Critical - Very Loose Women Ep. #155

• Fucked: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes

• 2Fucked 2Furious: still sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes

• Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation

Consent and accountability zine culture

• I am no hero, and neither are you; thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice

• The Broken Teapot

• From the Mouths of Wolves Bellowing Forth: Ask

• consen(t)sus?: exploring contradictions, practice, and politics; also, gay sex

Sex Work

• On the sale of sex & bodies

• Turn off the Red Light

• Grin and Bare It All

• Sex Workers’ Opera - The Art of Listening

• Sex Workers’ Opera

• Libertarian Socialism